Gallaher, DeWitt Clinton, 1845-1926
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
DeWitt Clinton Gallaher (1845-1926) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1790
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts diary of Mr. D. C. Gallaher, a young Virginian who went to Berlin to study law and German in 1869-1870. From August 1 to August 14, 1869 he was in various parts of New York. From August 25 to September 12 he toured Ireland, England, and Scotland. From September 12 to April 5, 1870 he was in Germany, most of the time in Berlin, attended law lectures and studying German. The diary was finished from a note book in Munich on August 1, 1870. Most of the 110 pages are taken up with...
Dates:
1869-1870
DeWitt Clinton Gallaher (1845-1926) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1853
Scope and Contents
Notebook of D. C. Gallaher, used for German study in Berlin, 1869.
Dates:
1869
DeWitt Clinton Gallaher, Civil War Diary of a Confederate Soldier
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0366
Overview
Published diary of DeWitt Clinton Gallaher of Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and Waynesboro, Virginia, who served in the Army of Northern Virginia from October 1863 to April 1865 in the 1st Virginia Cavalry and on the staff of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and Gen. Thomas Rosser. Diary begins in June 1864, when Gallaher was serving in the 1st Virginia Cavalry and entries typically record the cavalry's movements and engagements with Federal horsemen during the 1864...
Dates:
1945
Margaret Hersman, Collector, Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4360
Overview
Two autobiographical publications by West Virginians who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War: "A Diary Depicting the Experiences of DeWitt Clinton Gallagher in The War Between the States While Serving in the Confederate Army" (1945) and "Recollections of a Life Time" by Colonel Daniel S. DeWees (ca. 1904). See "Scope and Contents" for further information.
Dates:
1945; 1904
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